https://www.alamance-nc.com/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2018/10/AlamanceCoWWIIdeathrevAug2018.pdfAlamance County World War II Deaths
There were approximately 220 local deaths in World War II. This information was compiled from microfilm for the Local History Collection at May Memorial Library with the help of Miriam Pace, library volunteer and member of the Alamance County Friends of the Library, who spent many hours researching and copying.
Jeffreys, Thomas Jennings
Aviation Mechanics Mate First Class United States Navy died March 14, 1943
near Richmond , Washington in the mid-air collision of a Navy bomber and an Army Fighter plane over the Puget Sound that killed 7 people including 3 Navy officers and 3 enlisted men traveling in the Navy bomber.
The Army fighter plane involved in the incident was carrying a single pilot and was based at Paine Field near Everett, Washington.
Jeffreys is survived by his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Walker Jeffreys, of Route 3, Burlington, grandparents Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Thomas of Snow Camp, 1 sister, and 1 brother—Norman Jeffreys, serving in the U.S. Air Corps at Great Falls, Montana.
He was preceded in death by his mother, the late Mrs. Annie Thomas Jeffreys.
The funeral was conducted at Union Ridge Christian Church.
Source: Times-News March 16, 1943, March 24, 1943, and March 26, 1943
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